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Maui to remember third anniversary of deadly wildfires Saturday

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The annual Kuhinia Maui gathering will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the 2023 Maui wildfires that killed at least 102 people and burned much of Lahaina. The daylong gathering is intended to give residents an opportunity to be with family, friends and other community members as they support and care for one another on the third anniversary of the disaster. The gathering will take place on the lawn of Lahaina United Methodist Church at 988 Front St., according to the Maui County Office of Public Affairs. Following the recent completion of ...

126 years of ink: A new era begins at The Maui News

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For more than 126 years, The Maui News has chronicled the history of life on this beautiful island, serving as first a witness to but also a participant in the island’s remarkable transformation. Founded on Feb. 17, 1900, the newspaper began publication nearly six decades before Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959 and less than two years after the islands were formally annexed by the United States in 1898. At the time of the newspaper's founding, Maui was a largely rural island whose economy was dominated by sugar plantations and agriculture. The first edition of The Maui News was a ...

Marty Dread to release new album with Jamaican reggae legends

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One of Maui’s most prolific musicians, Marty Dread, has released more than 20 albums, and they will keep coming with two new vinyl releases about to drop. “Vinyl is my new foray into music,” Dread said. “With downloading you have to sell billions of them to make hundreds of dollars. ...

Court orders Maui Planning Commission to revisit Honua‘ula project

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The Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Maui Planning Commission must reconsider whether major changes to the Honua‘ula development formerly known as Wailea 670 require a supplemental environmental impact statement. Per its ruling, the court found the planning commission failed to properly consider whether the project had changed substantially in size, scope, intensity, use, location or timing since the 2012 final environmental impact statement was approved. Because the commission did not make that determination, the appeals court vacated that portion of the ...

Photo of the Day: Moonrise

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